Pentecost W,TH Tongues
Not of the Devil.
By T. B. BARRATT, of Christiania, Norway.
Because chose who have received their Pentecost:—
Love Christ more;
Love their Bible more ;
Love everybody more;
Long tj bring Christ to lost souls ;
Hate all that is of the Devil;
Are more on their knees, not as a duty merely, or for seeking
any merits, but because they love to commune with God.
Yearn to know more of Christ and constantly grow in Him.
Feel His Spirit leading them on ;
Only care to go as led by Him ;
Long to be kept humble and in the dust before God;
If a real baptism of fir« makes them better equipped to
serve God and right the Devil, then what they have received, if
it is as some people say, " Of the Devil," it ought to make them
more useful in the Devil's service.
Such a mighty experience as this, through which they have
passed, if of the Devil, must absolutely make them Devilish and
Satanic, and that in a very extreme measure.
They find, instead of that, that their delight is in the Lord
and " His statutes are their songs in the house of their pilgrimage." They are brought deeper down in a full acknowledgment
of their own unworthiness and constant dependence on God.
Even if Satan had taken upon himself an angel's likeness,
and given the outward colouring a rich religious glow, they
would still be able to detect if they ( if only a slight touch) bad
become more worldly-minded, more self-conscious, more drawn
to the lusts of the flesh, more prone to forsake God and serve
the Devil : and if they did not see it themselves, their friends
would.